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As a brutal winter continues to wreak havoc on the lives of commuters everywhere, the Trial Court has taken to social media to announce closures. The new @macourtclosings Twitter feed quickly garnered more than 1,000 followers just a few days ...

As accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues to file repeated requests with both the U.S. District Court and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to move his trial outside Boston, he is doing so without the benefit of ...

Negotiations leading to a thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba provided the perfect backdrop for a recent Suffolk University Law School course on mediation held — where else? — in Havana. The class was the brainchild of ...

“Trial of the century,” “biggest trial in Boston history,” and similar phrases are routinely thrown about in reference to the case of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. By at least one quantitative measure, the descriptions are accurate. To date, ...

Since its launch two months ago, lawsuit-crowdfunding website LexShares has seen thousands of users sign up, with strong demand on both the investor and litigator sides, co-founder and CEO Jay Greenberg reports. The litigation-finance service has raised $250,000 for a ...

A Land Court judge recently delivered a one-two punch to a Manchester architect involved in a zoning dispute: 1) While perhaps nice, his property is no Downton Abbey; and 2) the architect can’t be his own expert witness in the ...

A former lawyer-turned-wine-distributor — and movie-studio manager, for that matter — informs visitors to his LinkedIn profile that having “practiced law at the highest levels for 30 years, I am now on to other pursuits.” What the profile doesn’t mention ...

Internet entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have won a motion for summary judgment in a multi-million-dollar Facebook-related lawsuit resulting from a soured collaboration. To reach the decision, Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Billings created a small rift of his own ...

The ultimate test of a good lawyer is being able to pull out a win when the deck is stacked against you. Peter B. McGlynn recently passed that test. The Boston construction lawyer managed to convince a federal jury in ...